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P. L. LATHROP.

CURTAIN RING.

No. 300,485. Patented June 17, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Erica.

FRANK L. LATHROP, OF BROOKLYN, "ASSIGNOR TO H. L. JUDD & (30., OF

NEWV YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-RING.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,485, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed May 8, 1884. (No model.)

To (all whom, it stay concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. Ln'rnnor, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and'State of- New York, have invented an Improvement in Curtain -Rings, of which the following is a specification.

Curtain-rings have been made of sheet metal bent up, so as to be tubnlar or hollow, and in some instances they have been made out of a ring-shaped blank, so as to be free from joints, and in other instances they have been made of a strip bent up tubular and into a circle, with the ends joined together, sometimes by lapping and brazing, sometimes by an inserted lap. My improvement is available with either 01" these known forms of tubular cornice'rings, and it is made for obtaining economy in construction, a more neat and finished appearance, and for allowing the connecting-loop to hang freely and gracefully below the cornicering, so that the curtain that is attached to such conneetingdoop may assume its proper position in relation to the cornice-rin g.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the cornice-ring and suspending-loop. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same at the lower side. 3 is an elevation, and Fig. 4 a cross-section, of the cornice-ring and suspending-loop.

lhe cornicc-ring (t is tubular or hollow and made of sheet metal. I perforate the said ring a with two holes at b I), and pass into said holes the suspending-loop c for the curtain, the same being made of wire in the form of a circular ring, or of an elongated loop or link, as represented, so that the loop or link hangs freely below the cornice-ring a, and is adapted to receive the connection to the curtain. The

holes I) should be suifieiently large to allow the loop or link to hang freely and swing more or less, as may be necessary in hanging or moving the curtain. In some instances the wire of the loop may be twisted together by giving the loop portion a partial rotation, as shown. when the ring is made of a tubular strip rolled up into the form of a ring, I interlock the ends by cutting a saw-cut across the ring at one end, so that the other end of the ring can he slipped into this saw-cut, and one end will be partially within the other end, the parts lapping past each other. and interlocking, as shown. When the ends of the wire loop are hooked into the holes I), the ends will be firmly held together by twisting the points of the loop together, as shown.

1 claim as my invention 1. The hollow metallic cornice-ring having two holes, in combination with the loop or ring of wire passing into such holes, substantially as set forth.

2. The hollow metallic cornice-ring having two holes, in combination with the wire loop, the ends of which are hooked into such holes and the wire twisted together, as shown.

3. The sheet-metal tube bent into the form of a cornice-ring, with a saw-cut in the metal across one end, so that the ends are interlocked, substantially as set forth.

4. The tubular sheet-metal cornice-ring having the ends interlocked by passing into each other, in combination with the suspending: loop passing into the two holes in the tubular ring, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 5th day of May, A. D. 1884.

F. L. LATHROP.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, XVILLTAM G. llIOT'l. 

